Dmitry Alexandrov wrote on 01.07.2020 19:20:>>> Indeed, MPLʼs copyleft is so weak, that a free code you get is not necessary any useful for an user¹, but I supposed, that you, being a prominent extension developer besides an end-user, might be interested in it nevertheless... >> >> Indeed, I do have access to the full source code. But I signed an NDA that >> does not allow me to share it. > > Aha, thatʼs for sure explains why you have never interested in obtaining the > free part as free. ;-)
No, that's not the point. > Anyway, the question whether there is something valuable in it > remains open. (Or does postbox-inc.com violates Mozillaʼs copyright > by simply not providing it to the users?) First of all, it is very clear to me since the first day of working on Enigmail that the MPL will allow a company to use the source code, modify it and publish a non-free version of it without needing to release the free part. The MPL exists because of Netscape, the former owner of the Mozilla source code. Netscape published the code under a license that allowed it to publish its own derivative of the Mozilla Suite in a non-free manner as they liked (which they did in the past). There is no point of "being interested in obtaining the free part" for MPL licensed code - you can't request it. The Mozilla source code consists of roughly 20 millions lines of code, and I know almost nothing of that code, apart of some of the APIs it provides. Whether or not there is something valuable in the Postbox code is totally irrelevant to me -- I seriously doubt that I would find it. -Patrick
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